In this reposted video, Randy Dean shares a personal productivity experiment called “3 for 30 for 30,” where he will devote 30 minutes each day for the next 30 days to three priority projects: writing a book, developing content for his YouTube channel and online learning studio, and client follow‑up/prospecting. He frames the experiment against a backdrop of recent family milestones—a high‑school graduation, college visits, and his younger daughter’s dance team winning a national competition—highlighting the need to prioritize higher‑value work while managing tuition costs. Dean explains habit‑building theory (the 21‑day rule) and how he will still allocate at least five minutes on abnormal days (road trips, birthdays) to maintain consistency. He offers a scaled‑down alternative, “2 for 20 for 20,” for those who find the full commitment too demanding. The video concludes with a call for viewer feedback, a promotion of his website (randaldean.com), and an invitation to email him for free productivity PDFs.
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Hi everybody, feel awful. I posted the video about this 3 for 30 for 30, something corrupted the audio and I can't seem to get it back. So I'm just going to quickly repost the idea. I've been really busy in terms of a lot of personal stuff taking place the last couple of months. You know, my daughter graduating from high school, we had went and did a whole series of college visits so she could figure out which university she's going to this fall. Has that figured out. Uh, we held a big graduation party for her outdoors, socially distanced, safe, great times. Uh, and, um, then, uh, we also have a second daughter who is on a competitive dance team, and the team went to a competition. The team did well enough to make nationals. We went to the nationals competition out of state. And their hip-hop team took first. Yay! So it's been busy, but I have work to do, and now I gotta figure out how to pay college tuition. So I said, I gotta figure out a way to make some of my higher frame stuff get higher priority in my life and in my calendar. And so what I'm doing is I'm going to try something for the next 30 days. I'll report back to you how it goes. It's called 3 for 30 for 30. And here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pick 3 projects. One is going to be writing because I have a book idea that I've been sitting on and it's time to work on it. Uh, number 2 is content development for both my YouTube channel and my online learning studio. And, uh, number 3 is just simply client follow-up and new client prospecting activities. Because it looks like things are going to start heating up again this fall, and I want to make sure people know I'm still out there. And so those 3 things are going to be the 3 things that I'm going to target, and on every normal day, I'm going to try to give them 30 minutes. Now, here's the interesting thing. We've got a few abnormal days coming up. You know, we're going to be taking a couple little road trips with the family. My birthday is coming up, stuff like that. On those days, I'm going to at least give them 5 minutes anyway, just so I can keep building that habit, building that, um, muscle, so to speak, uh, by doing it every day. Because they say it takes 21 days of consistent action to create a new habit for the average person. And so I want to make sure they get at least 21 days. Now, obviously, 90 minutes a day, that's a lot for some people. If you think that's too much for you to try something like this, What about 2 for 20 for 20? Pick 2 projects, work or personal, that you commit 20 minutes to, time to learn how to play guitar, for the next 20 days. See how that works. I'd love to hear your comments if you've tried something similar, or if you try this and what happened. You know, would love to hear some comments back. And once again, apologies for the original video having a corrupted little audio file. So I'm reposting. And hopefully you'll find this idea of use and you can do something with it too. For more info about who I am, I'm Randy Dean. Let me get myself out of my own way. There I am, the email sanity expert. And if you'd like to find out more about me and my programs, go out to my website, randaldean.com. If you like videos like this and you want me to do more video blogs with ideas like this, click like, subscribe, leave me a comment. And if you'd like to get a whole bunch of little productivity PDFs on time and email and productivity management, including quite a few little tech tip videos, just send me an email, randy@randaldean.com, and put YouTube PDF in the subject line, and I'll give you some bonus PDFs that can, uh, maybe give you some self-study options to make something great happen. Thanks a lot, everybody. Have a great day.